UPSC EPFO EO/AO 2023 · Question 7

Question 7 of the UPSC EPFO EO/AO Recruitment Test 2023 (General Ability Test) (2 July 2023). Try it first, then open the answer and explanation.

1. EO/AO 2023 · Q7 · General English · Grammar & Usage

   Find the part of the sentence that contains an error. If there is no error, choose "No error". Given the complex of the problem the committee is not expected to arrive at a decision any time soon.

   1. Given the complex of the problem
   2. the committee is not expected
   3. to arrive at a decision any time soon.
   4. No error
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   Answer: (1) Given the complex of the problem

   The error is in part (1). As a noun, "complex" means a group of connected buildings or parts (a sports complex) or a psychological fixation (an inferiority complex); it does not mean the quality of being complicated. The noun needed is "complexity": "Given the complexity of the problem, the committee is not expected to arrive at a decision any time soon." Part (2) is a correct passive ("is not expected"), and part (3) uses the right collocation "arrive at a decision" and the idiom "any time soon", meaning in the near future.

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